1. 1 Attitude, Goal Setting, and Life Management

2. FUTURE
DREAMS
HAPPINESS

3. After studying these topics, you will benefit by:
Discovering the influence professionalism and positive human relations have on personal, academic, and career success
Knowing how individual personality, attitude, and values affect the workplace
Recognizing how self-efficacy and personal branding affect your confidence
Developing a strategy to deal with past negative experiences and other barriers to success
Examining the impact goal setting has on creating a life plan in today’s economy
Choosing priorities to support your goal

4. ALL ABOUT YOU
“Mirror words” describe the foundation of how you view yourself and others, and how you will most likely perform at work.
Personality and attitude dictate how one responds to conflict, crisis, and other typical workplace situations.

5. ALL ABOUT YOU
Professionalism: workplace behaviors that result in positive business relationships
Healthy relationships at work start with first understanding your own personality and attitude
Personality and attitude dictate how you respond to positive and negative workplace situations

6. ALL ABOUT YOU Human Relations: interactions with and through people
Get along with your colleagues, and positive workplace interactions will result in workplace productivity
In order to understand workplace relationships, you must first understand yourself

7. PERSONALITY AND VALUES
Personality: stable traits that assist in explaining and predicting behavior
Behavior is a reflection of personality
Positive: caring, considerate, organized
Negative: rude, unfocused, lazy
A result of influences
Experiences and influences outside of work affect one’s professional behavior
Family, friends, religion, society

8. PERSONALITY AND VALUES
Values: things that are important to you as an individual
There are good and bad values
Based on your personal experiences and influences
May include: achievement, family, money, or security
Shaped by experiences

9. TOPIC SITUATION Charley’s Values
TOPIC RESPONSE: If Charley continues to associate with his non-supportive friends, how could these friendships influence Charley’s performance at school and work?

10. ATTITUDES
Attitude: a strong belief about people, things, and situations
Related to values and personality
An individual’s performance influences a group’s performance, which then impacts the organization’s performance
Since you cannot avoid others, be aware of the impact other individuals have on your life; choose to surround yourself with positive people

11. THINK ABOUT IT
Identify one friend that you believe is a positive influence on you and a friend that is a negative influence. How should you handle these relationships?

12. TALK IT OUT
What cartoon character best reflects your personality and why?

13. SELF-EFFICACY AND ITS INFLUENCES
Self-concept: how you view yourself
Self-image: your belief of how others view you
Self-efficacy: your belief in your ability to perform a task
Projection: the way you feel about yourself and your environment is reflected in how you treat others

14. SELF-EFFICACY AND ITS INFLUENCES
Personal Brand: reflects traits you want others to think of when they think of you
May include:
Appearance
Values
Knowledge and skills
Value to others
Make a commitment to enhance your personal brand

15. DEALING WITH NEGATIVE “BAGGAGE”
Past experiences impact your personality and influence behavior
Negative baggage will affect your performance
Confront your past
Practice forgiveness
Move forward
Keep in mind that it is sometimes a painful and long process to reach your goal of becoming the best individual you can be

16. TOPIC SITUATION Keira’s Past Poor Choices
TOPIC RESPONSE:
What steps should Keira take to help her achieve her goals?

17. LOCUS OF CONTROL
Locus of control: identifies who you believe controls your future
Internal locus of control believes that he or she controls his or her own future
External locus of control believes that others control his or her future
Extremes on either end are not healthy

18. LEARNING STYLES
Learning Style: the method by which you best take in information and/or learn new ideas
Visual learner—learns best by seeing
Auditory learner—learns best by hearing
Tactile/kinesthetic learner—learns best by feeling, touching, and holding

19. THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL GOAL SETTING
Goal: a target
Think of it as a reward at the top of a ladder; you must climb the ladder before reaching the reward
Goals provide focus; increase self-concept; and help overcome procrastination, fear, and failure
Setting goals will help you become more successful in your career

20. TOPIC SITUATION Austin’s Goals
TOPIC RESPONSE:
What are specific steps Austin can take to ensure he reaches his goal of becoming a CPA?

21. INFLUENCES OF GOALS
Goals help to make career plans clearer and more meaningful
As a goal is reached, you will experience motivation and self-confidence
Set goals in the major areas of your life including personal, career, financial, educational, and physical

22. Example of Austin’s Goals
Five-year long-term goal: Obtain a bachelor’s degree in accounting
Three-year long-term goal: Obtain an associate degree in accounting and secure a job as an account clerk
One-year short-term goal: Successfully pass the appropriate courses toward the associate degree and identify an internship
Now: Apply for school and find a part-time job to obtain work experience

23. TALK IT OUT
Share one goal you have set for this class.

24. HOW TO SET GOALS
Achieving short-term and long-term goals is like climbing a ladder
Goals need to be put into writing
Set long-term goals
Set short-term goals for reaching long-term goals

25. HOW TO SET GOALS Long-Term Goals
Long-term goals: reached within a time frame of 5 to 10 years
Setting long-term goals starts with thinking of what you want to accomplish in your life
From your list of accomplishments, choose items you most value
Keep goals realistic, attainable, measurable, and important (have a reason for the goal)
Remember Austin’s goal to be a CPA? He believes becoming a CPA represents success. It is important to him, and it is a realistic goal that can be reached.

26. HOW TO SET GOALS Short-Term Goals
Short-term goals: goals that can be reached within a year’s time
Referred to as objectives in businesses
Set to help reach long-term goals
Keep them realistic, achievable, measurable, and important to you

27. HOW TO SET GOALS SMART Method
Specific
Identify what you want to accomplish or quantify
Measurable
Identify how you know when you have achieved it
Achievable
Challenging, yet attainable and realistic
Relevant
Make it meaningful to you
Time-based
Attach a specific time to reach the goal

28. HOW TO SET GOALS Goal Aspects
Own the goal
Each goal must belong to you
YOU need to decide what your goals will be
Control the goal
Know what resources and constraints are involved
Be flexible and maintain realistic control

29. Education and career Social and spiritual Financial Activities
CREATING A LIFE-PLAN
A life-plan includes:
Education and career
Social and spiritual
Financial
Activities

30. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Education and career
Degrees/certificates
Time frame
Financial resources
Support network
Education is the key to achieving your life plan

31. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Career
Why is your selected career important?
How will you know if you achieve success?
What resources are needed?
Choosing the right career is important
Different reasons include
earning power
status
intellect
self-satisfaction

32. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Social and spiritual
Marriage
Family
Friends
Religion
What types of people do you want to be a part of your life in the future?

33. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Financial
Home
Car
Ownership
Where do you want to be financially? What amount of money will you be comfortable with?

34. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Activities
Hobbies
Travel
Life experiences
What do you want to be able to do in the future?

35. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Writing Life Goals
Consider degrees/certificates, time frame, financial resources, and support network required for educational success.
When planning your career, consider:
Why your target career is important to you
What resources are needed to achieve it
How you will know you have achieved success
Consider the type of personal relationships you want in the future

36. CREATING A LIFE-PLAN Intrinsic (self-satisfaction)
Rewards that come from within you
Extrinsic (money, praise)
Rewards that come from external sources

37. TALK IT OUT
Share common rewards that are important to you and identify those rewards as intrinsic or extrinsic

38. PRIORITIES
Priorities: determine what needs to be done and in what order
You may need to adjust your priorities to reach your goals
Trade-off: giving up one thing to do something else
Be prepared to be flexible in all areas of your life-plan

39. TALK IT OUT
Identify priorities and trade-offs for successfully completing this course

40. YOUR PERSONAL HANDBOOK
Personality and attitude affect your performance, both personally and professionally
Use the text as a handbook to guide you in both personal and career plans
Begin developing a positive attitude and believe in yourself and your abilities